He quickly found the chocolates and returned, but was disconcerted on arriving under the olive-tree to find Dona Rosita no longer in the hammock.
And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blindworm battens on the root, And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree of Passion bears no fruit.
When they came to the old tree Mr. Bear took just one look at the nest into which Cuffy had thrust his paw.
His little round body and his sturdy little legs were not warm now, as they had been when he sat down beneath the tree to get cool.
He hid behind a tree and looked out over the field.
Cuffy saw a gray squirrel stick its head up from the crotch of a tree nearby and peep at him.
When he came to the tree that he had found the day before he stopped and drank some of the sap once more; and he tried to imagine how sugar would taste a hundred times sweeter.
From its chimney a stream of smoke rose, and as Cuffy peeped from behind a tree he saw a man come out and pick up an armful of wood from the woodpile nearby.
Then one day, after he tumbles out of the apple tree and falls squawking and fluttering to the ground, he takes his first lesson in flying.
After a little while Cuffy remembered that there was an old tree over in the pine woods--just the finest tree to climb that anybody could want.
And he was just going to knock it off the hook that held it when he noticed that a small spout had been driven into the tree just above the bucket.
Let's go over to the old tree and play," Cuffy said.
On ev'ry tree the leaves unfading grow, The fruitage ripens and the flow'rets blow!
The skulls of the victims sometimes were hung on strings which reached from tree to tree around their temples, and sometimes were built up in towers and cemented with lime.
On the return of day they saw several little boats with palm-tree leaves making towards them, and the natives came aboard without hesitation or fear.
For example, we look from our window and see, as we say, a tree at a distance.
Now, this visual experience is to us the sign of the reality, the real tree; it is not taken as the tree itself.
Is the tree really a faint blue, or is it really a vivid green?
Thus, when I ask: Why do I perceive that tree now as faint and blue and now as vivid and green?
Does this particular experience bear some peculiar earmark which tells us that it is like the real tree while the others are unlike it?
We do not say that the tree changes color and grows larger.
Probably most persons will be inclined to maintain that the tree only seems blue at a distance, but that it really is green, as it appears when one is close to it.
Now I perceive a tree as faint and blue, now as bright and green; will a reference to the Unknowable explain why the experiences differed?
We have seen that it is not unnatural to say: That tree is really green; it is only its distance that makes it look blue.
Things are not commonly seen by artificial light; the sun is not always setting; the tree looks green when it is seen most satisfactorily.
Thus, the touch object, the tree as he feels it under his hand, may come to be regarded as the sign of the presence of those entities that science seems, at present, to regard as ultimate.
The girl had killed it with the branch of a nut tree just as it was going to strike at me.
Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear and enlightened, that we can see nothing for excess of light, and go banging our noses against the first tree we come to in the wood.
The great Christmas tree on the table bore many apples of silver and gold, and all its branches were heavy with bud and blossom, consisting of sugar almonds, many-tinted bonbons, and all sorts of charming things to eat.
Also, all round the tree on every side everything shone and glittered in the loveliest manner.
It was as if some beautiful tree had suddenly come into his life, all covered with beautiful blossoms, and it was sawn across at the root.
In the latter the leaves are simple, ovate, and, curiously enough, set on edge; and the general aspect of the tree is therefore rather stiff.
Similarly, if the stroke on the trunk or branch of a tree shows many thin hair lines where the intention was that the line should be solid, this also is regarded as an additional evidence of stroke energy and is always highly prized.
Laws of the Four Paragons [The Plum Tree and Blossom.
In a landscape a tree is often found to occupy an unfortunate place or there is no tree where its presence would heighten the effect.
The tree branches with their interlacings reproduce the spirit of the Chinese character for woman, called JO JI (Plate L, No.
Without hesitation he spread a large sheet of Chinese paper (TOSHI) him and in a few moments we beheld a crow clinging to the branches of a persimmon tree and trying to peck at the fruit, which was just a trifle out of reach.
Though the trunk of the tree grows old it renews its youth and beauty every spring with vigorous fresh branches crowded with buds and blossoms.
Observe a Japanese artist paint the young branch of a plum tree shooting from the trunk.
His devoted wife accompanied him in some of his later travels, but long before he finished his work her body was laid to rest under the shade of a tree that for years was pointed out to all visitors to the Lower Zambesi.
It has taken the place of the tree under which he died, and where his heart, which had been so true to Africa, was buried.
As the tree was nearly dead, the section bearing the rude inscription cut by one of his servants was carefully removed and is now in London.
Greenie was humming over mournfully to himself the song which Mr. Tree Toad Todson had composed in memory of his cousin Toadie Todson--A Lament.
There down in the meadow under a big apple tree he found Stingy together with five other spiders.
Peace was soon restored, however, as Mr. Tree Toad Todson, very much of a gentleman at heart, was most anxious to ask pardon for this display of temper.
It spoiled the effect somewhat to lose her clear high soprano, but Mr. Tree Toad Todson filled in with his penetrating tenor, and it was rumored that the Composition would be a great success.
Up, up through the oak-tree he flew, now tumbling against a branch, now untangling himself from a sticky new bud.
Mr. Tree Toad Todson had leased this toad-stool for the summer season from his first cousin, the unfortunate Toadie Todson.
No tree withered by a frost ever showed its hurt more clearly than did Lord Durwent.
The birds flew from tree to tree, singing their paean of the sun's victory, and a light summer breeze was scattering perfume over the earth.
And for no reason he give me tree time extra for carry de godam ration.
Beneath a near-by tree he saw a woman in white, and the figure of a man pleading for something.
Back in de bush or on de long portage I shav' once, twice, perhaps tree time a month.
If a frog only once comes down from his tree he hops back into the pond again.
She was pliant in form as a young palm-tree when it bends, and withal she had a noble dignity, even on the occasion when I first saw her.
And you are the tree and I am the graft, and the magic power of marriage has made us one.
There is a poem in every form of tree or flower, but the poetry which lives in the trees and flowers of Australia differs from those of other countries.
Mrs. Red House was sitting under the may-tree when we got there, nursing her baby, in a blue dress and looking exactly like a picture on the top of a chocolate-box.
Their great 'prophet' argued that if the tree is good the fruit will be good; but when their own religion is in question they give such argument the slip.
Oh yes, Christians are forward to judge of trees by their fruit, except the tree called Christianity.
So, swinging the weapon up by its barrel, he smashed the stock against a tree trunk.
She pointed with her quirt into a bushy tree on the opposite bank.
The man in the tree had selected his station with good judgment.
His attention given for the moment to Pratt Sanderson, Frances had risen and dodged behind the bole of the tree against which she was leaning, a carefully watched prisoner.
Flitting from tree to tree, keeping one or more of the big trunks between her and Pete's roving eyes while still he was speechless, she was traveling farther and farther from the camp.
She shuddered and fell back against the tree trunk.
The outlaw in the tree was after the chest hidden in the wagon; but Frances put his safety above the value of the treasure chest.
A twisted oak, that is all--no less a tree and no less beautiful in the landscape!
Jason sat with his back to the tree and waited until they came close before he picked them off.
Jason closed his eyes, shutting out the glaring rays of the sun where it cut through the tree tops, and reconsidered his facts.
Tree branches had broken the lifeboat's fall, the bow rockets had burned out in emergency blast, and the swamp had cushioned the landing a bit.
None of the plants near a thick-trunked tree looked poisonous, so he slipped behind it.
Jason leaned against his tree and blinked up at the sky with sore eyes.
Holding one hand against the tree so he wouldn't fall, he began to trudge around it.
The ground was white in all directions, except around the tree where his stumbling feet had churned a circle of black mud.
The shallow, semi-circular window at the further end of the room was not yet curtained, and the branches of the still leafless plane-tree outside showed darkly in the gathering dusk.
Phoebe was sitting on a bench in the garden, an old yew-tree just above her on the slope.
A moment after he gave a queer little laugh, shrugged his shoulders, then staggered up to a tree and leaned against it.
Then he wiped his mouth, wrinkled up his forehead thoughtfully, and rattled off at a furious rate: "The pretty bird upon the tree its merry notes doth sing.
In one of the shop windows stood a Christmas treedecked out with little baskets and paper horns and cottonwool on all the branches.
The beech, knowing its flowers were nothing to speak of, put on its pale green silk first thing in the morning, and found no reason to be ashamed, but the apple tree surpassed them all; it had to put on its bridal dress with a blush.
Up in the old churchyard, every tree stood like a temple of perfume in the quiet, soft night.
What does an Apple-tree begin with, when it wants to speak?
I volunteered; and, getting up, I wandered round the tree under whose shade I had been reclining, looking on all sides for Sylvie.
And the Apple-Tree said——” Here followed another long pause.
Christmas-Tree Land, by Mrs. Molesworth, is a book to make younger readers open their eyes wide with delight.
This tree and the grass make a very nice easy-chair.
There is a flute that follows me From tree to tree: A water flute a spirit sets To silver lips in waterfalls, And through the breath of violets A sparkling music calls: "Hither!
